Evidences for oxidative stress in essential hypertension
Central European Journal of Medicine, 08/01/2012
Cvetkovic T et al. – Recent findings suggest that hyper tension is a condition followed by intensive oxidative stress and reduced antioxidant factors. Adequate and strictly controlled therapy, hygienic and diet regime and possible use of antioxidants can signi fi cantly reduce blood pressure and prevent possible complications.
Methods- Lipid peroxidation products (TBA reac tive substances) were determined in red blood cells (RBC) and serum together with markers of antioxidant status: total antioxidative capacity (AOC), catalase activity (CAT) and RBC glutathione (GSH) content in four investigated groups.
- The first group consisted of regularly and adequately treated hyper tensive patients without complication (regulated), patients with hyper tension and complication of some organs and organic systems were the non–regulated group.
- Third group were patients at the beginning of EAH (non–treated) and controls were normotensive individuals.
- Compared with controls, regulated and non–treated group, non–regulated hyper tensive pati ents had higher TBARS concen tration in plasma (p<0.001) and lower AOC, CAT activity without differences in GSH content.
